WfMC Free White Papers

The Workflow Management Coalition provides an
important forum for the adoption of standards throughout the
industry. Standards provide an infrastructure for
inter-organizational business process automation and
management. In our book
series, industry experts and thought leaders
present significant new ideas and concepts to help you plan a
successful future for your organization. From time to time, we
will feature white papers contributed to the
Workflow Handbook
series for you to download for free.

(extracted with permission from the "2006
Workflow Handbook including Business Process Management" launched on May 16, 2006The Business Process Management Notation
(BPMN) was developed by individuals working together in the Business Process
Management Initiative to take the techniques employed in flowcharting tools,
unify and extend the graphics to express the semantics required in workflow
and EAI processes. BPMN 1.0 was released in May 2004. In addition to the
graphical notation, BPMN incorporated a number of specific mechanisms for
process modeling that had not yet been included in XPDL; among these in
particular events and message passing between processes. XPDL 2.0
incorporates these mechanisms as well as the graphics and offers an extended
meta-model that unifies XPDL and BPMN.

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